My quest to learn CW (15)

 15 months of learning CW now and still not able to make a real CW QSO (chat) with someone. At least, I could make a QSO with kind of a standard template or so. But if the station would ask me something I would not understand, which worries me the most.

My monthly overview again. You see, I try to practice every day. Sometimes I have no access to a computer, in that case I use the morsemania app on my iphone.

Not the most important but I try to do 2 lessons each day to improve my speed. The rest of the time is spend on plain text, word or callsign training. I also train numbers with a speed of 30/14 and have most of the time 100% score. However the combination letters/numbers like in a callsign is far more difficult.

If time allows I'm listening to CW on the radio and do some training with the Begali paddle. This evening I listened to 2 stations on 60m. IK2JET and HA2PP. I spotted them on the cluster and got some reaction from them both which was nice. However I didn't dare to try and make a QSO. I was listening to HA2PP when he made a QSO and was not able to figure out what he was actually keying. It was way too fast for me and only a few decodes could be made. That was a little frustrating and discouraging. But I will persevere learning the code. I always estimated that it would take at least 3 years to master it and make a normal QSO with CW. And if I look back and see how far I came already I think it is still possible.

I started a user group on LCWO, my main CW learning and training platform.

I'm the only member and founder right now. If you like to join me that would be nice...

And at the end of this blogpost I want to share this: